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“I got a call, kind of just ’cause I was in the mix. The musicians he assembled for his solo debut – Blasko on bass, Mike Riggs on guitar, and White Zombie/The Cult percussionist John Tempesta on drums – were all working for him, to bring his ideas to life. What mattered to Zombie, though, was that the project be his and his alone – driven by a singular vision, rather than the democratic process of a full band. When Rob began putting together a team to record what would become Hellbilly Deluxe, the band still technically existed, and there was an underlying thought that his solo album might be a flash in the pan. I remember walking offstage, handing our road manager my microphone, and saying, ‘Well, that’s the end of that’… It had degenerated to the point where it was miserable.”īut White Zombie’s dissolution wouldn’t become public knowledge for a while.
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“When that tour ended, I knew it was the end,” he says in It Came From NYC, the book that accompanies White Zombie’s 2016 box set.
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After the last show of the band’s 1996 War Of The Gargantuas tour with Deftones and Pantera, the frontman left thinking the band was resolutely over. He chose to take a big risk, and it really worked.”įor Rob, the end of White Zombie was inevitable. White Zombie could still exist, as a band, and do whatever it’s doing. “It wasn’t like the situation with Ozzy, where he had to go solo. “Rob didn’t have to go solo,” says Rob 'Blasko' Nicholson, who played bass on his first three solo albums and now plays in Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band.